This Academy Award-nominated film features compelling first person accounts which reveal the physical, legal, and emotional consequences during the era when abortion was a criminal act. Remembrances include those of women who experienced illegal abortions, doctors who risked imprisonment and loss of their licenses for providing illegal abortions, and individuals who broke the law by helping women find safe abortions.


This movie is part of the collection: Fadiman Social Documentaries

Director: Dorothy Fadiman
Producer: Dorothy Fadiman, Daniel Meyers
Production Company: Concentric Media
Sponsor: KTEH-TV
Audio/Visual: sound, color
Language: Spanish Sub-Titles
Keywords: Dorothy Fadiman; Academy Award; Oscar; Concentric Media; reproductive rights; women; women's rights; abortion; abortion laws; abortion legislation; abortion rights; women's history; women's health; personal stories; interviews; reproductive health; reproductive choice; medical issues; health care; medical care; public policy; human rights; doctors; abortion doctors; clergy; back alleys; women's history; illegal abortions; abortionists; Erika Luckett
Contact Information: Distributed by: Bullfrog Films: info@bullfrogfilms.com Concentric Media: www.concentric.org

Creative Commons license: Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs

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Reviewer: passionatefilms - - November 28, 2012
Subject: For The Young Women
For those young women today who are not aware of the issues faced by women back then.

Latina women especially need to know, and need to understand how important the right to choose is.

Credits

Producer/Director: Dorothy Fadiman
Executive Producer: Danny McGuire
Camera/Editing: Daniel Meyers, Blake McHugh
Production Team: Daniel Meyers, Beth Seltzer
Additional editing: Nila Bogue Staudt, Lise Rubenstein
Music: Erika Luckett
Produced with KTEH-TV (PBS)